Ruling and striping device



Dec. 1, 1953 c u c EL 2,660,951

RULING AND STRIPING DEVICE Filed Feb. 8, 1951 a7 Snoentor Patented Dec. 1, 1953 UNITED STATES TENT OFFEQE 2 Claims.

made by a ruling pen and this work is tedious and 7 time consuming.

The device of the invention in a broad way includes a holder in which a lining or ruling wheel is rotatable and which by manipulation of the device may be rolled along a drawing or the like to provide a long line.

According to the invention, the construction is such that as the ruling wheel is rolled along a drawing, a driver associated therewith rotates a wheel in engagement with the ruling wheel and functions as the ink supplying wheel therefor.

The construction is such that the ink supplying wheel operates at substantially the same peripheral speed as the ruling wheel and being driven it does not interfere with the rolling of the ruling wheel and efficiently supplies the ruling wheel with ink or the like.

The device makes it possible to quickly and easily apply lines which may vary as may be desired and the type of the lines is limited only by the number of interchangeable ruling wheels or" the device. a

All of the above objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangements of parts thereof, as will fully appear by a perusal of the description below and byvarious specific features which will be hereinafter set forth.

To the above cited and other ends and with the foregoing and various other novel features and advantages and other objects of my invention as will become more readily apparent as the description proceeds, my invention consists in oertain novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more particularly pointed out in the claims hereunto annexed and more fully described andL referred to in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a lining or ruling device embodying the novel features of the invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of the housmg of the device with the closure and ruling or lmmg wheel and ink applying wheel removed;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 and showing the ruling and ink applying wheels;

Fig. 4 is a sectional elevational view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a representation of the line which may be produced by the device of the invention; and

Fig. 6 is a view showing a plurality of ruling wheels for the device.

Referring now to the drawings more in detail, the invention will be fully described.

A housing 2 has a handle 4 of any desired form extending therefrom as shown in Fig. 1.

The housing 2 has a lower wall 6 and side walls 8 and is normally open except for a movable closure Ill. The closure It is swingable on a stud i2 so as to close the housing as in Fig, l.

A stud M on the housing is receivable in a slot 7 iii when the closure is in closed position and a recess l8 in the housing receives a downwardly displaced portion 20 of the closure to releasably hold the closure in its closed position.

A shaft 22 extends through the lower wall s and 1S threaded on its lower end to receive a nut 24 which when tightened holds the shaft against rotation relative to the said lower wall.

A driving wheel 26 has upper and lower flanges 28 and an upper knurled stem to with a central driving portion 32.

An idler shaft 34 is secured to the lower wall in any suitable manner and extends upwardly therefrom, as shown.

A driven wheel 35 is rotatable on the shaft S i and includes flanges 38 at opposite sides of a central portion 49. A knurled stem E2 extends upwardly from upper flange 38.

The central portions 32 and lil of wheels iii and 3 6 are in operative engagement whereby as the wheel 26 is rotated the wheel 33 is rotated thereby. These portions of the wheels may be formed from yieldable material such as rubber,

rubber composition or the like so that the wheels maintain a good engaging contact.

An inking wheel M has upper and lower flange portions 43 and a central portion 48 therebetween. This wheel is adapted to slip over the knurled portion 42 of the driven wheel so as to be rotated as the wheel 36 is rotated.

The central portion 48 will be formed from material adapted to retain ink and the like for inking purposes, and may be formed from felt or the like.

The closure may be readily opened to permit removal of the inking wheel 44 should it be desirable for inking and other purposes.

A lining or ruling wheel 50 has lower and upper flanges 52 and is adapted to be slipped on and off the knurled portion of the driver 25 and to rotate therewith.

A central portion 5 5 of the wheel 59 will be formed to have a peripheral face adapted to receive ink from the inking wheel and apply the same. Said central portion 55 may be formed from yieldable rubber, rubber composition or the like and it may have peripheral projections of any desired form or combinations of forms.

As illustrated, the wheel 50 has circumferentially spaced projections for providing a line consisting of spaced dashes, as shown in Fig. 5.

There may be other wheels 60 and 62 as shown in Fig. 6 which have dash and dotprojectionsfil and E3 or dot projections 65.

There may be as many ruling wheels as may be desired each having a certain peripheral configuration and any one of them may be applied to the knurled portion 30 of wheel 26.

The inking wheel may be supplied with ink or the like and being in peripheral contact with the ruling wheel ink is applied thereto.

The closure may be swung between closed and open positions so that ruling wheels may be applied or removed The inking wheel is readily accessible or may be removed when the closure is in open position.

In use the device when grasped in the hand may be moved along a straight edge or the like so that the ruling wheel rolls on the drawing or the like and as it rotates ink is applied thereto.

It is possible to provide long lines easily and quickly and these may be varied by interchanging ruling wheels.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Hence, the present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely as being illustrative and not as being restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all modifications and variations as fall within the meaning and purview and range of equivalency of the appended claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

What it is desired to claim and secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A ruling device comprising in combination, r an elongated housing having a lower wall and an end wall extending upwardly therefrom at an inner end thereof, longitudinal side walls extending upwardly from said lower wall andforwardly from said end wall and terminating inwardly of an outer end of said lower wall, a forward shaft extending upwardly from said lower wall adjacent the outer end thereof, a rear shaft spaced rearwardly of said forward shaft extending upwardly of said wall, a drive Wheel rotatable on said forward shaft having a knurled stem exink receiving contact with the periphery of the inking Wheel.

2. A manually operable ruling device comprising in combination, a housing having a lower wall anda rear end wall extending upwardly therefrom at a rear end thereof, a manually engageable handle extending rearwardly from said rear wall, transversely spaced longitudinal side walls at opposite sides of the lower wall extending from said rear wall and terminating adjacent a forward end of said lower wall, a closure and swingable connections between said housing and closure for swinging of said closure from a closed position over said walls and an open position away therefrom, a forward shaft extending upwardly from said lower wall adjacent the forward end thereof, a rear shaft extending upwardly from said lower wall between said forward shaft and rear end wall, a drive Wheel rotatable on said forward shaft and a driven wheel rotatable on rear shaft, said wheels having peripheral faces in operative engagement for rotation of the driven wheel by the drive wheel, said wheels having knurled stems fixed thereto and extending upwardly therefrom, an inking wheel removably carried by the knurled stem of the driven wheel, and rotatable therewith, and a ruling wheel removably carried by the knurled stem of the drive wheel and rotatable therewith having ruling portions on the periphery thereof for ink receiving contact with the periphery of said inking wheel, said forward shaft being so disposed relative to the forward end of the lower wall and the ruling wheel being so arranged that a forward portion of said wheel extends outwardly of the forward end of said lower wall and the adjacent ends of said side walls.

CHRISTIAN E. BURCKEL.

GreatBritain June 7, 1926 

